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Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867-1868
ISBN: HB: 9780300208245, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 275 black&white illus.
Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian Count...
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Frank Browne A Life Through the Lens
ISBN: HB: 9780300208153, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 220 tritone illus.
Born in Cork, Ireland, Francis Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera; Browne continued to...
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it was always there, it's just grown stronger
ISBN: HB: 9783037784556, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
144 pp., 16.5x24 cm, 100 illus.
Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he co...
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Art of Landscape Photography
ISBN: PB: 9781781450529, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2014
192 pp., 23.5x21 cm, 204 photos
There are many general titles on landscape photography, but few that really tackle the issue of composition in great depth".The Art of Landscape Photography" assumes a good working knowledge of the technical basics – such as correct exposure, filtrat...
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Composition in the Landscape An Inspirational and Technical Guide for Photographers
ISBN: PB: 9781781450550, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2014
192 pp., 25.4x18.9 cm, colour illus.
The landscape is not only endlessly varied it is also constantly changing, and this is what makes it such a fascinating and challenging subject. Using a fabulous collection of landscape photography, Peter Watson's latest book gives you both the inspi...
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Vladimir Jindrich Bufka
ISBN: PB: 9788072154012, DAP, Torst, September 2014
148 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 78 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Despite a career that was curtailed at the age of 29, Vladimir Jindrich Bufka (1887-1916) was one of the most distinctive early-twentieth-century art photographers in Prague and indeed in all of Austria-Hungary. Bufka drew...
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Jan Svoboda
ISBN: PB: 9788072154241, DAP, Torst, September 2014
140 pp., 17.7x16.5 cm, 92 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Czech artist Jan Svoboda (1934-1990) spent a lifetime laboring to redefine the language of photography. This catalogue gives an overview of his career, from early still lifes to works that questioned the rules and boundarie...
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For a Love of His People The Photography of Horace Poolaw
ISBN: HB: 9780300197457, Yale University Press, August 2014
200 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm
Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-1984) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects,...
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Chema Madoz Masterpieces
ISBN: HB: 9788415691792, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, August 2014
458 pp., 33x25.4 cm, photos
Trip through the universe of Chema Madoz. This is the first full review of the work of one of the most evocative contemporary photographers as well as an exhaustive analysis of more than three hundred of his images ranging from his first photographs...
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Lines
ISBN: PB: 9780300207231, Yale University Press, August 2014
88 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 44 tritone illus.
Edward Ranney (b. 1942) is one of the most distinguished photographers of the Peruvian landscape. In 1985 Ranney began photographing the Nazca lines, a series of monumental geoglyphs that stretch across an arid plateau in southern Peru. Created by th...
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